Bluegrass Jam Along Interviews

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Bluegrass Jam Along News New  Bluegrass Jam Along website News and announcements (Church street News) IBMA Bluegrass Live! Releases (The Grass is New) Tim O’Brien  Cup of Sugar Tim Stafford  Guitar Melodies Watch ...

My guest this week is Tim O'Brien. Tim has a wonderful new record called 'Cup of Sugar', which I think is as good as anything he's done. We chat about the songs and themes on this record, as well as those on Tim's last album 'He Walked On'. Many of them revolve around connection and understanding other people's stories and experience. Tim is such a fascinati...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. News and announcements (Church street news) Bluegrass photos Scott Simontacchi Instagram Tony Rice photo Releases (The Grass is New) Tim O’Brien Cup of Sugar pre-order link Tim Stafford Guitar Melodies pre-order li...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Sign up for  email alerts Natalie and Brittany Haas interview Apple Spotify Tristan Scroggins Facebook page Tristan Scroggins interview Apple Spotify The Grass is New Spotify playlist Happy picking. Matt === -  Sig...

My guests this week are Natalie and Brittany Haas, who join me to chat about their great new record  Haas. Some of you will be familiar with Brittany from Hawktail and Crooked Still, and Natalie from her long standing musical partnership with Alasdair Fraser. This new record marks their first duo recording, despite them having played music together for most of their lives. It was a fascinating, an...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news Sign up for  email alerts Church Street News Tyler Grant ArtistWorks course Wayne C. Henderson Festival and Guitar Competition The Grass is New - new releases The Grass is New Spotify playlist Tim O’Brien...

Hi. I've got a Food For Thought episode for you this week. It's been a while since we did one of these, but something that happened last weekend that made me think - so I thought I'd share it. Have a listen and see what my take is. Then head over to  Bluegrass Jamalong's Instagram  or  Facebook  and tell us what you think! Happy picking. === -  Sign up  to get updates on new ep...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news Sign up for  email alerts Church Street News Nashville Acoustic Camps DelFest Jerry Douglas online lessons The Grass is New - new releases The Grass is New Spotify playlist Scroll on Buddy Volunteer at Blu...

This interview is an extended version of the one that appeared in the first part of the Tony Rice  Church Street Blues  40th anniversary celebration. I talked to Wyatt for almost an hour and we covered some areas that weren't directly related to the  Church Street Blues  episode, but are fascinating as an insight into where Tony was around the time the album was recorded. Wyatt also shared so...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news Bluegrass Jam Along YouTube channel Sign up for  email alerts Church Street News Rhiannon Giddens video The Grass is New - new releases The Grass is New Spotify playlist Scroll on Buddy The 'Whiskey B...

Welcome to part 2 of the celebration to mark 40 years of Tony Rice's classic album 'Church Street Blues'. This episode focusses on people who were inspired by Tony and his music. The full line up for this episode is: Bob Minner Jake Eddy Justin Moses Marcel Ardans Scott Nygaard Jason Keiser @tony_units If you missed part 1 (featuring Alison Krauss, Wyatt Rice, Mike Marshall and more...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news Tony Rice Church Street Blues 40th anniversary celebration part 1 Dan Tyminski interview Chris Eldridge interview Sign up for email alerts Church Street News Heart of the Ozarks Bluegrass Association My Na...

Welcome to the first of two very special episodes of Bluegrass Jam Along. Tony Rice's classic album 'Church Street Blues' is 40 years old this year. To celebrate, I've spent the last 3 months interviewing people about it and this is part one of the results. In this episode you'll hear from people who knew, played with, worked with and spent time with Tony, including an int...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news Rachel Baiman interview Sign up for  email alerts Church Street News Matt Flinner mandolin courses The Grass is New - new releases The Grass is New Spotify playlist Scroll on Buddy Billy Strings and Willie...

My guest this week is singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Baiman. We chat about Rachel's new record  Common Nation of Sorrow , how she made the transition from being an instrumentalist to being a songwriter, how she re-imagined a little known John Hartford song for the new record, why it can be good to include covers on your records as a songwriter and much, much more. This was...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news Sign up for  email alerts The Grass is New - new releases The Grass is New Spotify playlist Tony Rice live recordings Tony & Wyatt Rice - Together! The Tony Rice Unit - A Beautiful New Year’s Eve The T...

Hi everybody. I recently released two special episodes to celebrate Doc Watson's 100th birthday. I chatted to so many amazing people for them I ended up with almost 5 hours of content! I'm aware not everyone has the time to listen to that much content, so I've decided to pull out some of the key bits and release them as standalone episodes, for those of you who'd like to hear t...

Hi everybody. I recently released two special episodes to celebrate Doc Watson's 100th birthday. I chatted to so many amazing people for them I ended up with almost 5 hours of content! I'm aware not everyone has the time to listen to that much content, so I've decided to pull out some of the key bits and release them as standalone episodes, for those of you who'd like to hear t...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news Sign up for  email alerts Church Street News Tyler Grant’s new ArtistWorks course Tyler's Facebook IBMA tickets Billy Strings tour Inside the Musician’s Brain podcast The Grass is New - new releases T...

Hi everybody. Last month I released two special episodes to celebrate Doc Watson's 100th birthday. I chatted to so many amazing people for them I ended up with almost 5 hours of content! I'm aware not everyone has the time to listen to that much content, so I've decided to pull out some of the key bits and release them as standalone episodes, for those of you who'd like to hear...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news Sign up for  email alerts Church Street News Rob Ickes' Reso Summit Slide Fest DelFest lineup The Grass is New - new releases The Grass is New Spotify playlist Scroll on Buddy Chris Pandolfi's  I...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news Bluegrass Jam Along is now sponsored by Collings Guitars and Mandolins Sign up for email alerts Church Street News Blue Highway Fest The Grass is New - new releases The Grass is New Spotify playlist Scroll...

My guest this week is Noam Pikelny. Noam is probably best known as a member of Punch Brothers, but he joins me this week to talk about his new project, Mighty Poplar. He’s joined in this band by fellow Punch Brother Chris Eldridge and former Punch Brother Greg Garrison, as well as Andrew Marlin of Watchhouse and Alex Hargraves, fiddle player with Billy Strings. We chat about how the band came toge...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news Sign up for  email alerts Church Street News Fretboard Summit The Grass is New - new releases The Grass is New Spotify playlist Scroll on Buddy Alison Brown and Steve Martin In my ears this week The Grass...

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Pod news John McEuen interview  -  Apple -  Spotify -  YouTube Church Street News Pat Morris, IBMA’s Executive Director, has announced his  plans to resign Alan Bibey joins Balsam Range Bluegrass Situation piece on...